[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Martin Gregorie]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:30:18 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On 2023-11-14 00:40, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:44:15 +0000, Pancho wrote:
>> 
>>> Looking back on it now. I think the strangest thing about VMS was the
>>> Manual Set.
>> 
>> I was part of one, fairly large, project on VAX/VMS. I thought the
>> oddest part of it was the way the usual collection of programmer's
>> utilities were implemented as a handful of multi-function development
>> tools, i.e. one program that handled all source file management tasks,
>> another to take care of all comms tasks, etc. I've never met any other
>> OS that was structured that way.
> 
> What other OSes do you have experience with?
>
ICL:     UDAS, OLDAS, George 1`,2 and 3, VME/B
Stratus: VOS
IBM:     OS/400 
DEC:     VAX/VMS, TruUNIX (Alpha server)
PC:      DOS, Windows, Unix, RedHat Linux
6809,    FLEX, OS/9
68000:   OS/9 68000
Stratus: VOS
Tandem:  Nonstop OS
RPI:     Debian Linux
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Source management is usually handled by one single program, even on most
> systems today. Be that cvs, svn, git or whatever.
>
Indeed, I used CVS for years, now using Git
  
> And have you ever looked at find under Unix? That's a swiss army knife
> if you ever saw one...
>
Use it a lot, also apropos, 


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